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Offlineaudiophoenix
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Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? * 1
    #26527548 - 03/10/20 03:04 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Let's talk about prepping.

I have some food stored, but that's about it.

Recent events have highlighted the importance of having some fortifications in place if shit hits the fan.

I would like to discuss what someone can do today to start preparing and what those of you who have preparations in place have done to better you position.


I have plans for gardening and canning this summer. Also looking at getting a generator in place and a well pump for an old well on my property should city water no longer be available.


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: audiophoenix] * 1
    #26527556 - 03/10/20 03:09 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I have a small generator that is for "just in case" basically. It's pretty underpowered (900w peak/700 continuous) but it runs on propane, which doesn't go bad like gasoline.




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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: psi]
    #26527563 - 03/10/20 03:12 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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I have a small generator that is for "just in case" basically. It's pretty underpowered (900w peak/700 continuous) but it runs on propane, which doesn't go bad like gasoline.







That's a good call, How much propane do you have stored though?


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: audiophoenix]
    #26527578 - 03/10/20 03:19 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Not much, I should at least get a 20 lb tank like in the picture, maybe a couple. I would also like to get something figured out for heating running water with propane. I do have a 1/4 hp sump pump that the generator should produce enough power to run.


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: psi]
    #26527589 - 03/10/20 03:22 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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US Army Field Manual on Survival, one of the best survival guides (direct Shroomery download)

Where There Is No Doctor - official DIY healthcare guidelines for untrained civilans, a mainstay in develping nations (direct Shroomery download)

LDS Guide - after a few pages about Jesus, 200+ pages high quality info on survival in the home and on the run, a prepper's mainstay (direct Shroomery download)



It doesnt have to be the end of the world. It can be as simple as a severe financial crisis. Or a really bad, really lethal Influenza outbreak or another contagious disease. A storm, a flood, a hurricane. Or a lot closer to home, widespread riots in your city making it wise to barricade the door and wait it out.

Here's my 1 month home survivability minimum recommendation. Almost all of these crises will be over in a few days, or a few weeks at most. This is great because your prep here will be enough to help out more people than you anticipated.

Please, consider committing to storing up a m,onths worth of self sufficiency in your home.



-Assume you'll take your stand in your home.
-Get a first aid kit for the home, you really need that anyway.
-Get acetaminophen, get diphenhydramine, get loperamide.
-Get food and drink for a month in your home.
-Get a camping stove and cartridges to cook the food and a months supply of toiletpaper and trashbags to wipe and get rid of the food.
-Get a bottle of non sudsy chlorine bleach and a pair of household gloves. Refresh this bottle every year. Also get a pack of dust mouth masks, such as used in construction.
-If possible, get a months worth of cash in your home in small bills.
-Get a LifeStraw. You need just one for up to a family.
-Get candles, glowsticks, a led flashlight, batteries and a lil radio set to the emergency frequency.
-Get a survival book or at the very least download LDS and BUSHDOCTOR and USARMY (these are direct downloads of .pdf files here on the Shroomery)
-Get a quality survival style knife like a Ka-Bar or Fallkniven F1 and a knife sharpener, a multitool and waterproof matches.
-Get a weapon for home defense. In tight gun law countries this can be something like a chefs knife or screwdriver ducktaped to a yard long steel pipe, a machete or quality shortsword such as a wakizashi, crossbow, ice axe (for mountaineering), pepperspray or baseball bat, in places like the US a handgun is best.
-Get some drugs in your home that you won't binge on but which will help pass the time and serve as potential barter. Don't forget coffee, tea, alcohol and tobacco if you are in the habit and can have em in your home without going overboard.





You don't have to get this all at once, you can pick up an item every now and then and add it to your collection.

As for a months food and drink, you can consider getting a box of emergency rations, army ones (like the NRG-5 the UN and Red Cross uses but your own nation's army typically has the most affordable kind) or luxury ones like the freeze dried gourmet stuff like Mountain House brand. Emergency rations have the advantage of being compact, calorie dense and have shelf lives of 10, 15 or 25 years which means you can forget about them for over a decade. In addition to that many can be consumed as-is so theres no need for elaborate cooking, which may not be possible.

If you got these you are waaay ahead of nine out of ten people. Note that a prep like this is of a size you can still stuff in a car and drive off with.

Interest your VERY closest friends in the whole prep thing and propose to shack up in case of calamity. This combines your efforts, supplies and skills and at once you got a team. Teams of tight knit friends have higher survivability.



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What are you doing to prepare?





I'm beefing up my prepping effort, to have supplies for a month plus without need for shopping runs, also not counting on gas, electric, water mains. Besides the basic bare-bones longterm storage prep which is fine as it is, I'm beefing it up with many intermediate-term storage items that will not just make it survivable but also, comfortable to do so. Lets not forget that even the US Government itself through FEMA is urging Americans to take at least a few weeks of supplies in your house, in any part of America, at any time (fema.gov link) so I'm not saying something alien and nonsensical here. This is something which even your government urges you to do.

I'm letting those with me know that I believe its necessary to take preparations for 2019, even on the risk of looking a fool to others, emphasizing to take it with however many grains of salt one wishes, as one ultimately is responsible for ones own decisions. The ones who laugh it off now, if it comes to be, will have one heck of a wakeup call at the first sign of trouble they take seriously. If they still don't, they should become part of the disaster. It will probably last considerably shorter than a person will starve. If they are so hell bent on experiencing third world problems, let them drink from their toilet, and then from the nearby river, let them be part of the civil unrest on an empty stomach, sure.

The Judeo/Christian/Islamic story of Noah's Ark comes to mind. If you feel called to build an Ark (metaphor for preparing against potential calamity) by all means tell the others - the ones that laugh and scoff are not meant to be on board. Disasters happen for a reason, if this one happens the reason is loud and clear.

In addition to sensibly preparing to meet temporary societal service interruptions and telling a friend, I'm also taking preparations to profit from this disaster. Some of the worlds greatest corporate piggybanks are about to get smashed releasing countless billions into markets a citizen can access. Value of currencies will take a nosedive, commodities will soar, alternate currencies like crypto will potentially soar like never before as Big $$ takes refuge, stock pricvces will plummet sharply before they risew back up to their inherent value, or over in compensation. As some corporate giants are gonna lose their shit, I'm going to attempt catching some of it.
Plenty good money to be made in this scenario if you respond correctly to it.


So:

Prepare for calamity
Prepare for opportunity
Prepare your friends

Thats my plan.

If its yet another disaster drill, no harm done.

The sensible purchasing of life supplies will result in groceries $avings$ so it nets me money as I'll be using retail what I buy in bulk, anyway.

Preparing for opportunity, even if a drill, will improvew my financial situation and alertness.

Preparing my friends will help them gain an edge over the general population as they'll be sinking thoughts and actions into investing into the ounces of prevention that outperform pounds of cure, and it will futher separate the wheat from the chaff, those who take me seriously will weigh my words, or anyones words, more carefully as the forecast did not materialize, and those who think its all a big joke, will take me even less seriously, which, too, is advantageous.




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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: psi]
    #26527597 - 03/10/20 03:24 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I do have a fireplace in my house, and it's functional.

I was considering converting it to gas, but I'm sort of liking the idea of a worst case scenario burning wood for heat.

Really a wood stove in the basement with simple stove pipe out the window would make more sense though.


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: psi]
    #26527606 - 03/10/20 03:32 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I need a generator.


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: Crazy_Horse]
    #26527645 - 03/10/20 03:57 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Underground bunker with hermetically sealed doors and enough hepa filters for ventilation to make your head spin. A completely walled off above ground solar power system protected by facial recognition softaware/turrets.40 years worth of dried food/wet water complete with a "final option" button that microwaves everyone inside. Our underground compound (that I haven't left for 6 years) has showering facilities, play areas, arcades, and a stadium sized gym complete with racetrack, I. Pretty sure it's like 4 miles. I haven't left this space because there is no reason to. My only motivation for leaving the bunker is for ganja


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: audiophoenix] * 1
    #26527659 - 03/10/20 04:04 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

We luckily have a cabin (2BR, 1BA, AC/Heat, full bath/shower, generator, etc...) up in the mountains on 11 acres, so we would bug out to that place. Guns and such out there, so we could hunt food if necessary. There's a water tank, and we're filling it soon actually.


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26527662 - 03/10/20 04:06 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I always have first aid and basic survival provisions out of principle. Have I added anything since covid thing? :no:


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: spirit_shadow]
    #26527665 - 03/10/20 04:07 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Same here.


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: psi]
    #26527669 - 03/10/20 04:08 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I wonder if it will soon be a good time to stock up on propane what with the oil prices crashing. :hank:


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: psi]
    #26527673 - 03/10/20 04:12 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Propane is a good choice. All 30 of our bunkers fridges run on it


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: psi] * 1
    #26527674 - 03/10/20 04:13 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

LOL, I read that in his voice!


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26527679 - 03/10/20 04:16 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Lube. If I’m stuck in side with my wife for a while with nothing to do you can bet it’s going to be a jam fest.


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: christopera] * 1
    #26527714 - 03/10/20 04:44 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I'm prepped anyway because I live in cyclone country. We've been cut off for extended periods of time before after big storms. Food, water, gas, batteries, generator, radios, candles, all the stuff is checked and replaced/replenished every Nov.


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: Northerner] * 1
    #26527949 - 03/10/20 06:33 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Columbia House says I have a lifetime supply of CDs


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: Patlal] * 1
    #26527962 - 03/10/20 06:42 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Thinking of buying some extra whiskey and more Ketamine


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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: feevers]
    #26528116 - 03/10/20 08:11 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I have a bunch of cat food.



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Re: Are you a "Prepper"? Are you starting? [Re: watermelon mon]
    #26528130 - 03/10/20 08:22 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Do you have a cat?


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